Saturday, December 31, 2016

The Pitfalls of Poptimism

The son of Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren set £5m worth of punk memorabilia ablaze this year in protest of its appropriation by a mainstream that treats disposable pop music as worthy of serious thought.

But as 2016 draws to a close, in a weirdly brave new world where the manner in which people consume media has become more fragmented and simultaneously more all-consuming, are global pop artists still just constructs of a system who exist only to be force-fed to the masses?